Traumatic Relationships and Serious Mental Disorders

A comprehensive clinical guide for the professional on the treatment of severe post-traumatic disorder. This book provides a review of the nature and causes of PTSD following severe personal trauma and discusses strategies and planning for treatment.

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Mental, physical, or sexual abuse in close personal relationships commonly results in trauma that is very different from the trauma of accidents, illness, or war. Making creative use of attachment theory to explicate the multifaceted outcomes of trauma, this book provides a powerful conceptual framework and a concise, masterly review of a huge knowledge base. It is encyclopedic in scope and scholarly in its up-to-the-minute survey of research findings.